svn commit: r366626 - head/sbin/reboot

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 04:08:09PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote:
> > On 11. Oct 2020, at 16:01, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Also nextboot.conf not generic configuration file (such as loader.conf
> >> or loader.conf.local), but the implementation specific file, part of
> >> special feature.
> >> 
> >> That is, one should not assume the presence of nextboot.conf file, make
> >> assumptions about its content, or perform manual edits on it.
> > 
> > Do we want it to be the second-class citizen like this?  Would it make
> > better sense by documenting it more completely instead?
> 
> It is not really about being second-class citizen, it really is about if
> and how we can implement the feature. With UFS there is a limited write
> (write to existing, allocated disk blocks), with ZFS there is no write to
> file system at all.

I see; that would explain why loader(8) replaces the "YES" -> "NO"<space>,
but I guess I'd have to read the discussion on -rc@ which lead to r177062,
because I don't see the reason for it to be removed (twice) if it's being
disabled by the loader(8) earlier anyway.

./danfe